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If the Danny Care revival strikes a chord with anyone then it is surely the
man who has been sacked, dropped and even mocked by One Direction.

Mike Phillips’s fall from grace means that the starting scrum half for the
Lions last year is now playing second fiddle to Rhys Webb, his former
Ospreys understudy. It might sum up the reversal of fortunes in the careers
of Care and Phillips that while Conor O’Shea says the Englishman has “the X
factor”, the latter has spent recent weeks in a Twitter spat with the boy
band who came third on it.